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*J4» lHHt>: Katon I'ltce*

4 A very exciting win'k. I spent Thursday and Friday, *Jlst and ihind, at tin* Parnell Commission, hearing Pigott examined and coming in for the whole

cif hw cross-examination by Sir C. Kussrll. There

wns only out* and a quarter Imurn of thin on Thursday

afteriicitKii, but it tho turn of the title. It wan the

exciting I c*vtir i4|miit» In ttiti and wo

eiiinit away nimply aHtoninhcul that a fellow-creature

could In* a liar an Pxgott. It very funny, too ;

but I oould not ht»lp thinking of ilreky Hhnrp*« " It*a

i«i i*any to be virttumn on At(H)U/. a year ; ** and to see

old limit KtiuuliiiK then% with ovt'rybody'H hand

hint, driven into a corner at hint, after all hin

tunm and twittta, Hoincwluit pathetic.

*0f courms it i« a tn^uondoim triumph for the Hcmm Kulern. I am a Unionist, and 1 feel thin in a blow for Unionism,*

* 'Mill Kiibrunry.

* There will he a f^tval feeling that Mr. Parnell han l>een the victitn of a conspiracy, as in the case of the letters he certainly ban ; and pooplo won't stop to ask which facts are affected by the 1'igott revelations.'

* Hundayt *t«l Murch, tssy : Tendon.

4 Another of about Pigott. On

the and it found

he ha«l the "Times" to withdraw the

and to what IB an "apology/1 . . /

Om 19 Parnell dined at Mr. and

Mr* Buxton :